Show some of Ou quackery ackery the old proverb any port in a storm has often found practical illustration in the empirical treatment of disease time was when oven even regular practitioners in the art of healing included in their professional armament along with many simple remedies of real value other matters tho the very mention of which might almost suffice to engender illness wo we may feel thankful that wo we have now entered upon a later and more scientific era and that such extraordinary drugs as weasels gizzards giz docs does hoofs snails and other even more repulsive horrors do not now find a place in any pharmacopoeia there still exists however a it specie species of medical folklore and somo some of its prescribed wisdom available for use in illness is of the most remarkable kind times of panic by throwing a population la to some entena on its own resources for treatment are apt to create a demand domand manifor for these survivals of a dark ago age this happened lately in germany where a toad cooked with much care was swallowed as a cure for cholera As to the result we wo are not informed most of ns Us would probably choose to suffer rather than thus attempt our own relief london lancet |